I know one reaction I’ve had to the (allegedly) North Korean hackers and their attack on Sony and their movie ‘The Interview’ is “Why now?” Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are not the first American filmmakers to make fun of North Korea, or even its real-life leaders. ‘Team America: World Police,’ for example, featured a marionette-version of late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, who wants to destroy Western Civilization (but is also very lonely); the 2012 ‘Red Dawn’ remake actually changed its Asian invaders from Chinese to North Koreans in post-production because at the time that seemed like the more politically and financially safe choice. That’s not going to happen again anytime soon.

out as well.) A couple of theaters had planned to show ‘Team America’ in its place as a sort of replacement-slash-protest—but as this story continues to spiral out of control,

those plans have now been squashed as well. Three different exhibitors tweeted today that they’d been told that “all future screenings” of ‘Team America’ were “cancelled” by distributor Paramount. First, from the Plaza Atlanta, in Atlanta, Georgia: